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Oct 2024 ETC Community Achievements

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By Hannah Kobre Over 20+ years, the Entertainment Technology Center has built an incredible community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Through their shared commitment to innovative, interdisciplinary work, the ETC community has consistently been recognized for their artistic and technical achievements — including, this month, sweeping an entire Emmys category. Alumni Achievements Martin Montgomery… Read more »

ETC Faculty Member Moshe Mahler’s Short Film Honored With Best in Show

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In 2017, Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) Assistant Teaching Professor Moshe Mahler began working on his short film “The Art of Weightlessness.” Almost seven years later, Mahler’s film has won Best in Show at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. “When I finished the film in 2023,” Mahler said, “my son pointed out that this film took his whole life to make!”

Confronting racism in the ETC Community – We Can Do Better Together

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Confronting Racism and Promoting Equity and Inclusion, message to the CMU community from Farnam JahanianCarnegie Mellon University President, Henry L. Hillman President’s Chair Dear ETC Community –  We continue to live through unprecedented times together. While the world is still working to solve the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation is struggling with the systemic racism and… Read more »

Vituccio, Cho To Screen Their VR Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

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This article is from CMU’s new site: https://www.cmu.edu/piper/news/archives/2019/april/vr-documentary.html By Bruce Gerson Email Dive under the chilly, majestic sea off the rocky coast of South Korea, hold your breath and fish with your hands with the Haenyeo, about a dozen women keeping the ancient native tradition alive. You can experience this amazing National Geographic-like underwater adventure in… Read more »

Jesse Schell named as 2019 KAPi Award winner

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ETC Professor of the Practice Jesse Schell was named one of the 2019 KAPi award winners by Living in Digital Times.  The KAPi Awards recognize the most innovative games, software, devices and apps for educating and entertaining today’s digital children.  More information about this year’s award winners can be found in the press-release.

Jessica Hammer – 2018 Teaching Innovation Award Recipient

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Jessica Hammer, Assistant Professor with a joint appoint with the ETC and HCII has been named the 2018 Innovation Award Recipient in this year’s Celebration of Education. The Celebration of Education recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university’s standards of excellence in education. This event celebrates Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished faculty members and educators… Read more »

You Can Do More Than You Think: Memories of Randy Pausch

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As part of CMU’s celebration of the 10th anniversary of ETC Co-Founder Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, Distinguished Professor of the Practice, Jesse Schell gave a lecture “You Can Do More Than You Think: Memories of Randy Pausch” on Monday March 5, 2018.  Jesse Schell had the privilege of meeting Randy Pausch at the Walt Disney… Read more »

ETC’s Schell Named HEVGA Fellow

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Press Release:  https://hevga.org/fellows/ WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Today, The Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) proudly announces their Fellows program, inducting 30 scholars into their inaugural cohort of leaders in games in higher education. Established in 2017, The Higher Education Video Game Alliance Fellows program recognizes senior scholars in the games domain who… Read more »

ETC at GDC 2017

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At next week’s Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, the ETC will have a strong presence with alumni, faculty and over 40 students in attendance.  Here is a summary of the information gathered of the ETC participation. STUDENT PARTICIPATION Nikhil Kashyap, ETC 2017 Platinum winner for a narrative review he wrote on ‘The Walking… Read more »

Shipbreakers Wins Award in Accolade Global Film Competition

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shipbreakers Wins Award in Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Merit Special Mention: Documentary Feature Pittsburgh, PA, 2016 –Paul Goodman, ETC faculty member Ralph Vituccio, and Tom Clancy (USA), Shipbreakers, Documentary Feature has won a prestigious Award of Merit from The Accolade Global Film Competition. The award was given for an eye-opening documentary… Read more »

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